This is awesome – here’s a young lad who totally gets the essence of a tangle pattern.
This fine tangle, Swirly Dot, comes from the creative mind of Thomas Gallagher, a 9-year-old artist and new Zentangle® enthusiast. Swirly Dot is simple and fun to draw and has lots of opportunities for variation that produce impressive results.
Thomas resides in the southeast portion of America. He enjoys drawing, playing piano, and practicing Tae Kwon Do. He became interested in Zentangles while observing his mom’s attempts. When Lisa Gallagher submitted the pattern for her son Thomas, she wrote:
“My 11 year old daughter and I have spent the last couple of weeks practicing patterns from your site and others and have enjoyed every minute. I have invited my nine year old son to join us since he enjoys drawing very much, but he has always spent the time ‘creating his own’ instead of attempting tangles created by others. … he is an enthusiastic nine year old trying to grow as an artist.”
As you can see below, Thomas took a great deal of care in presenting his excellent step-by-step instructions for drawing his Swirly Dot tangle.
Lisa Gallagher created this Zentangle® of some striking Swirly Dot variations.
Thomas Gallagher's Mom's illustration of some Swirly Dot variants. Copyright the artist, used with permission.
Great job Thomas (and Lisa)! Thanks for the fun tangle and we look forward to seeing more of your artistic creations.
Check out the tag thomasg for more of Thomas’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.
Really nice job Thomas – keep up the good work!
LOVE THIS! Great job, Thomas!
Good job, Thomas…I really like this tangle !!
What a great tangle! Absolutely love it!
Very cool!! My daughter now sees patterns everywhere. She is constantly saying, Mom – that would make a great pattern! She has a great eye. She likes for me to draw the designs so she can color them in and she does a beautiful job.
Great job thomas! I will be using this in my next tangle. Thanks for sharing.
Great job son and mother : )
Thanks Thomas! What a great job!
Thanks for sharing this
Wow! What an amazing pattern young Thomas created! I am so very impressed and will surely add this to my own repetoire! i am actually a bit embarrassed that I, a 44 year old woman is not able to come up with her own Zentangle, and a young 9 year old boy can!!!! Well done Thomas!!!! (And Lisa, I love your variations on it!!!)
GREAT pattern! looks like a lot of fun to do—thanks for sharing it w/us Thomas
Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work.
Very cool!